• TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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      3 months ago

      I paid for the internet, the 486, the power, and the apartment. I had to download napster and use it. that took time which could be exchanged for money.

      Oddly enough it was the same federal minimum wage during Napster time as is it is now.

      How was that “free” ? Free certainly had high price requirements.

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            Nah, 486s were old by the time Napster was out… The first Pentium IIIs were coming out then I think

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                3 months ago

                I think I did in fact first use it on my PIII 450MHz running win 98 maybe in 2000 or 2001. It feels like it must have been before 9/11.

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            3 months ago

            Hell it’s decades later and I still don’t have Pentium money lol